Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene

open access | peer reviewed
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  • Peggy Karpouzou - National and Kapodistian University of Athens, Greece - email orcid profile
  • Nikoleta Zampaki - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - email orcid profile
Abstract

The special issue titled Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene examines a multifaceted notion of ecology: life and death involve numerous entities, processes and relationalities that cannot be analyzed separately. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of environmental humanities, blue humanities, continental philosophy, arts and film studies, this special issue explores life and death eco-imaginaries and entanglements of the human and non-human world, highlighting an eco-ontology that exposes these entanglements where ethical territories of eco-grief and eco-mourning are unfolded. This special issue is structured in three main axes: articles that study existential aspects of death and life in the Anthropocene and are apt to environmental approaches concerning the intricate relationship between death and life in water narratives, articles that focus on how to deal with eco-grief through the literary and artistic conceptualization of the ecologies of life and death, and articles that shed light on alternative ecologies of life and death beyond the Anthropocene and the western discourses. The discussion about various narratives of ecologies of life and death moves across boundaries, considering that all research fields involve forms of expression that somehow ‘disrupt’ entrenched patterns while at the same time ‘revealing’ their contingency and opening the discussion about life and death, ‘(un)settling’ dominant grief imaginaries and ‘mobilizing’ different sensibilities for the humans and non-humans.

Keywords Literary lagoons • Slime • Posthumanism • Ecocriticism • New taxidermy • Relationality • African American Studies • Comedy • Mourning • Bataille • Continental Philosophy • Humanism • Animal Studies • Lila Avilés • Georges Bataille • James Joyce • Planetary literacy • Samuel Beckett • Death Studies • Eco-art • Cinema • Eye of the Crocodile • Necrocene • Harlem Renaissance • Sacrifice zones • Cyborg • Ecophobia • Indigeneity • Existentialism • Laughter • Caroline Walker Bynum • Ecofeminism • Postmodernism • Slow violence • Ned Beauman • Anthropocene • Extinction • Wetland ecology • Ecological mourning • Human-animal relationship • Human and nonhuman animal corpse • Grief • Northeast India • Søren Kierkegaard • Val Plumwood • Land agency • Chinese Contemporary Art • Agential narrative • Death • Traditional knowledge • Informational picturebooks • Clown • Indigenous epistemologies • Immanence • Eco-critical dystopia • Ethics • Ecological grief • Philosophical Animism • Humanistic Care • Rebirth • Postmodern • Cultural ecology • Clowns • Intersectionality • Sympoiesis • Environmental mourning • Sustainability • Loss • Blue humanities • Water • Eco-horror • Wonder • Ecology • Hegel • The Marrow Thieves • Alenka Zupančič • Taxidermy • Posthuman • Irony • Crocodile • Ravencene • Speculative fiction • Boglands • Mexico • Donna Haraway • Life • Multispecies studies • Plumwood • Dark ecology

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02 | Pubblicato 06 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua en

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